Marghanita Quotes & Sayings

In pagan times women were buried with accoutrements that reflected the female role in society. Instead of the tools, weapons and hunting dogs that accompanied men, women took household utensils, implements for needlework, spinning and weaving, jewellery and lapdogs with them on their journey to the next life. — Else Roesdahl

Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me ... — Marghanita Laski

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. — Studs Terkel

What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me. — Marghanita Laski

She is here
because no-one else was there when worn-to-skeleton
her enemy died. Her love. Her twin.
Marghanita dreamed the intravenous, the intensive
the stainless steel
before she ever saw them. She's not practical,
you know, they used to say.
She's the artist, she got away. — Adrienne Rich

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. — Buffalo Bill

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition. — John Bellamy Foster

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. — Liu Xiaobo

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings. — Christopher Lambert

You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways. — John Steinbeck

One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good. — Marghanita Laski

While I was wallowing in self-pity, focused on myself, there was a whole world with literally billions of people who had no idea who God is, how amazing He is, and the wonders He has done for us. They are the ones who are really suffering. They don't know His hope, His peace, and His love that transcends all understanding. They don't know the message of the gospel. — Nabeel Qureshi

i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air — E. E. Cummings

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward. — Edith Piaf

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. — Roderick Haig-Brown

The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done. — Marghanita Laski

Hippocrates wrote: Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things. — Carl Sagan

The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts. — Paul Craig Roberts

Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are. — David Attenborough